he life; No God any more, He says that when he thinks about it all he immediately gets the image of high windows. This conjures up the image of church windows, especially when he mentions the sun-comprehending glass. He is saying when he sees happy, free people his thoughts turn religion. It is as if he believes religion would sort it all out for him, it would be something he could place up high away from the mundane that he can see and believe in. Larkin cannot do this because he cannot see religion beyond what is solid, such as a church:- And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. This proves that Larkin is very much firmly attached to the ground. He is unable to believe in something because he cannot place it in a category, cannot find it in the same place every time. The poem starts off by concentrating on defying religion, seeing fornication as a positive thing and not having God in your life as a burden lifted:- Thatll be the life; No God any more, or sweating in the darkAbout hell and that,It then ends with Larkin unable to cope with this concept and trying to justify it through religion in some way maybe because he doesnt believe that there is nothing there apart from deep blue air. He finds it hard to see the sky and believe that is where everything ends, that it goes on for infinity as blue nothingness. This is a hard concept for anyone to understand and Larkin does not want to have to understand it. He wants to believe that there is a god beyond what we can see with heaven and everything that goes with it or just a more simple answer which leaves behind all the clutter associated with spirituality. If this is true then it would seem that Larkins real problem is not with religion but with death and a fear of it.Water is an obvious attempt to simplify matters...
